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Yakovlev Yury Aleksandrovich

Date of birth: June 15, 1966 (59 years old)
City of residence: Sosnovoborsk
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  6 лет 2 месяца лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  March 17, 2023
Current location:  FK LPU KTB-1 GUFSIN Rossii po Krasnoyarskomu krayu

Yakovlev Yury Aleksandrovich, born June 15, 1966, and lives in Sosnovoborsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai.

He was sentenced to 6 years and 2 months in a general regime penal colony on charges of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Organizing the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with his membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia. The appellate court upheld the sentence.

He has been in custody since March 30, 2022.